678 英翻中 (378) Remembering the God's Word. 求將祢的話刻在我的心版上. 2/19/2024

678 英翻中 (378)       Remembering the God's Word.    求將祢的話語刻在我的心版上.   2/19/2024

Feb.   19.         Remembering the Word.     Bible reading : Psalm  119:33-40       Key verse  Isaiah 40:8  2 月 19 日       記住上帝的話語.               讀經：             詩篇 119:33-40          鑰節:  以賽亞書 40:8

                        The grass eithers, the flower fades,                                                                                                              But the word of our God stands forever.                                                                                                      草會枯萎, 花會凋謝, 但我們上帝的話永遠長存.

        In the book The Light and the Glory, Peter Marshall Jr. tells how Isaac Potts, George Washington's temporary landlord, once discovered the future presdent in prayer.  Potts, a Quaker and a pacifist, came upon Washington's horse tethered by a secluded grove of trees ... Hearing a voice, he approched quietly and saw the General on his knees at prayer.  Not wanting to be discovered, he stood motionless until Washington had finished and returned to his headquarters.                                                                                   在小彼得·馬歇爾所著《光與榮耀》一書中,  他講述喬治 · 華盛頓(George Washington)總統的臨時房東 艾薩克 · 波茨(Isaac Potts)如何在祈禱中發現了未來的總統.  波茨是貴格會信徒和和平主義者, 他看到華盛頓的馬拴在僻靜的樹林裡……他聽到聲音, 悄悄走近, 看到將軍跪在地上祈禱.  他不想被將軍發現, 所一點都不動地站著, 直到華盛頓將軍結束禱告, 返回總部.

        Potts then hurried to tell his wife Sarah, "If George  Washington be not a man of God, I  am greatly deceived, and still more shall I be deceived, If God does not, through him, work out a great work out a great salvation for America."                                                                                                                                波茨趕緊告訴他的妻子莎拉："如果喬治華盛頓不是上帝的僕人, 我就被大大地欺騙了, 如果上帝不透過他, 來成就祂拯救美國的偉大作為, 那我就更是受騙.”

        Washington once said, "It is impossible to rightly govern .... without God and the Bible."  This tremendous truth was one he would carry with him through the years of the American Revolution and then into the office of the presidency.                                                                                                                    華盛頓曾說,  "沒有上帝和聖經，就不可能正確地治理美國…  .  他在美國革命的歲月裡, 一直帶著這個偉大的真理信念, 然後進入總統職位.

        Joining Washington was Benjamin Franklin who wrote, "If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without God's notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?"                                                    班傑明 · 富蘭克林(Benjamin Franklin)也加入了華盛頓的行列, 他寫道：“如果上帝不允許, 一隻麻雀都不會落到地上;  那麼美國是否有可能在沒有上帝的幫助下革命成功？”

        The question is not, Has God forgotten America? but, Has America forgotten God and His Word?            問題並不是說,  "上帝忘了美國嗎？ 而是, 美國忘記了上帝和祂的話語嗎？"

                Write Your Word upon the tables of my heart, dear Lord.  I don't want to forget You!                                 親愛的主, 求將祢的話語刻在我的心版上.  我永不會忘記祢！